[Demexp-dev] About OCaml Debian packaging
Hi, Stefano Zacchiroli, an OCaml Debian packager, which worked on CDuce with Alain Frisch, made a conference about OCaml and OCaml Debian packaging at LinuxTag 2005 (Germany). The slides of this presentation are available at: http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2005/linuxtag-karlsruhe/debianday/stefano_zacciroli-ocaml_debian.pdf There are very interesting informations about how OCaml applications, compilers and libraries are packaged inside Debian. By the way, http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/ is a new repository set up by Debian, which will contain slides, videos and other reports of previous Debian-related conferences. Have a nice day, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev
Re: [Demexp-dev] About OCaml Debian packaging
Hi, David MENTRE wrote: Regarding the rebuild of packages after an API change, I'm wondering why Debian developers don't setup a build infrastructure to systematically rebuild all packages. OCaml is not C++ and one can easily rebuild *all* ocaml packages of Debian in a reasonable amount of time. They are working on this, using a new debhelper called dh_ocaml. I didn't had time to look precisely at it, but you can read the presentation mail by Stefano at http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2005/08/msg7.html. I think this will not rebuild automatically the packages, but will at least automatically report interface inconsistencies. And anyway, for people maintaining backport packages, this doesn't solve everything. When Debian developers will upload ocaml 3.08.4, I'll have to compile unstable packages for this version of the compiler, but keep testing and stable version against ocaml 3.08.3. Once the compiler will move to testing, I'll have to convert the testing package. But, hey, this is the funny part of packaging ! ;-) Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev
Re: [Demexp-dev] About OCaml Debian packaging
2005/9/29, Thomas Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: They are working on this, using a new debhelper called dh_ocaml. I didn't had time to look precisely at it, but you can read the presentation mail by Stefano at http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2005/08/msg7.html. I think this will not rebuild automatically the packages, but will at least automatically report interface inconsistencies. Yes, the set of dependent packages that need to be rebuilt. It's after reading Stefano's slides that I wondered why at least official DD don't have an infrastructure to *automatically* rebuild packages after an upload of a new package. Or maybe I've not understood. It is the *upload* of the updated package that needs to be donne automatically. I have the feeling that it is a mistake to *manually* set in the package description that your package depend on ocaml 3.08.3 or 3.08.4. AFAIK, with GODI, when 3.08.4 arrives, all dependent packages are rebuilt automatically, without the need to change the source package description. More precisely, taking the same example as Stefano, the source package for library Wow should Depend on ocaml-base-nox and the build system should build a libwow-1.0+3.08.3.deb if the build system has ocaml-base-nox-3.08.3.deb package installed. When the new ocaml-base-nox is uploaded, the system should build the package ocaml-base-nox-3.08.4, it should realize that libwow package is too old and automatically rebuild it a libwow-1.0+3.08.4.deb. I have the strong feeling that debian packaging relies too much on manual operations, like changing a Depends: from ocaml-base-nox-3.08.3 to ocaml-base-nox-3.08.4. And anyway, for people maintaining backport packages, this doesn't solve everything. You're right. When Debian developers will upload ocaml 3.08.4, I'll have to compile unstable packages for this version of the compiler, but keep testing and stable version against ocaml 3.08.3. Once the compiler will move to testing, I'll have to convert the testing package. But, hey, this is the funny part of packaging ! ;-) :( I suppose you need to maintain one chroot debian per release (stable, testing, unstable)? Continuing above example, by forcing you to explicitely set the ocaml compiler version in package *description*, you are forced to maintain *several* package descriptions, which is a nightmare for you. Having a single package description would makes things a lot simpler. Yours, d. ___ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev
[Demexp-dev] Problem to see added questions
Hi,
I'm facing a new problem with demexp. I'm running a personnal
demexp-server, on which I'm able to login as root, thanks to the quick
and dirty patch discussed a couple of days ago.
Using the client, I'm able to add tags, add questions, put some tags
inside questions, but I'm not able to see the questions. Tags are
displayed on the left of the main demexp window, but questions are never
displayed. However, I can see them from the « Classification » window,
and when I add a question, the server says that it has been successfully
added.
I've tried to remove my ~/.demexp/ directory to see if the cache wasn't
breaking the thing, but it still doesn't work.
Ideas ?
Sincerly,
Thomas
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